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From: kam@itivax.iti.org (Keith A. McNabb)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Free Text Databases
Keywords: free text, PC, Sun
Message-ID: <1158@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 12 May 89 15:44:50 GMT
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI.
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Would anyone be able to recommend a good, efficient, and fairly
powerful FREE TEXT database for a PC-AT compatible (MS-DOS) or 
Sun/UNIX environment?  It should have no restrictions on record 
length and should allow pre-existing flat ASCII files to be 
easily incorporated.  At the same time, it should support the 
definition of various fields, so that searches may be more
selectively qualified, and it should support numeric operators.

I've learned that the PC version of BRS will do all of this.  
Is there anything better/slicker/more cost-effective out there?

Please excuse this query if the question has already come up in 
the past - I'm not a regular reader of this newsgroup.

--Thank you--

Keith McNabb
Industrial Technology Institute
kam@iti.org